linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin

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Message-ID: <20100526160028.GC5299@nowhere>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 18:00:30 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:28:34PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:59 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 05:22:17PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> > > We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
> > > ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
> > > and perf-kmem, so we remove it.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
> > > Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-kmemtrace |   71 ----
> > >  Documentation/trace/kmemtrace.txt           |  126 -------
> > >  MAINTAINERS                                 |    7 -
> > >  include/linux/kmemtrace.h                   |   25 --
> > >  include/linux/slab_def.h                    |    3 +-
> > >  include/linux/slub_def.h                    |    3 +-
> > >  init/main.c                                 |    2 -
> > >  kernel/trace/Kconfig                        |   20 -
> > >  kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c                    |  529 ---------------------------
> > >  kernel/trace/trace.h                        |   13 -
> > >  kernel/trace/trace_entries.h                |   35 --
> > >  mm/slab.c                                   |    1 -
> > >  mm/slub.c                                   |    1 -
> > >  13 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 832 deletions(-)
> > >  delete mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-kmemtrace
> > >  delete mode 100644 Documentation/trace/kmemtrace.txt
> > >  delete mode 100644 include/linux/kmemtrace.h
> > >  delete mode 100644 kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Just one thing: you forgot to update the kernel/trace/Makefile
> 
> You can also axe kernel/tracing/trace_sysprof.c and related bits.


I'll do that too, but I 'll need Soeren's opinion before actually pushing it.

Thanks.

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